Senator Tom Cotton is accusing President Biden’s nominee to serve as ambassador to Israel of being an “Iran sympathizer”. Senator Cotton leveled the charge against Jacob Lew, the former Obama Treasury Secretary Cotton accuses of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions and lying to Congress about it. Says Cotton “It’s bad for the United States. It’s bad for Israel to have an Iran sympathizer as our ambassador to that country.   “.Lew came under fire in 2016 for handling Obama’s payment of $400 million to Iran, famously reported by the Wall Street Journal as being stacked on pallets and delivered to Iran in an unmarked cargo plane His nomination for comes up before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday.